MindMap Gallery Paul Durcan The Difficulty That Is Marriage
“Hardly a day goes by that I don't think about our marriage.” Paul Durcan, in an interview with Ciara Dwyer.
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Paul-Durcan-The-Difficulty-That-is-Marriage
LANGUAGE AND STYLE
Imagery
The Girl with the Keys to Pearse's Cottage
Sport
Alliteration
The Difficulty that is Marriage
Sibilance
Parents
Concisness
Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
Connotation
Diaologue
Repetition
Nessa
Allusion
KEY LIFE EVENTS
Born in 1944
Commited to psychiatric hospital in 1963
Marries Nessa O'Neill 1967
Awarded Professor of Poetry 2004
Wins lifetime achievement award at IrishBook Awards 2014
THEMES
Love
Power
Marriage
Emigration
Loneliness
Justice
Parenthood
Childhood
Masculinity
FatherSon Relationship
Mental Health
POEMS